ORIGINAL POETRY. For the Emerald. There is much beauty and felicity of expression in the subsequent ode. The classical reader will recognise a happy imitation from the Greek of a Hymn to Health by ARIPHRON of Sicyonia, and the English reader may find a literal, prosaic translation from the pen of Dr. Johnson in his 48th Rambler. POLLIO does indeed dilate; but he does not weaken the force of the original bard, soaring on the pinions of gratitude in the "heaven of invention," "latumque choro Peana canentem." ODE TO HEALTH. AUSPICIOUS Health! celestial power Shield with thy wings my anxious head, And, thro' my life's precarious hour, Adorn with smiles my humble shed. Sweet'ner of sublunary joy, Companion, friendly, free and bland; The flowers of pleasure droop and die, Uncherish'd by thy fostering hand! Whatever towns, or courts assume, In verdant fields or mountain blue : Without thy influence, heav'n-born maid, Lost are the joys which these supply, And Jaithful Friendship's liberal aid, And the bright blaze of Beauty's eye! Vor does it, Wit, to thee belong, To laugh our evils into ease! Vor can the poet's tuneful tongue Retain, alas, the power to please! Jan Fame, with soft enchantment's skill, The blush of rosy health maintain? Can Luxury the task fulfil, To extirpate the sting of pain? low weak is manly Pity's hand The sick from sorrow's couch to raise? low inefficient Pride's command? How vain the silver tongue of praise? Tho' pleasure may amuse awhile; No human heart was ever blest! SELECTED FOR THE EMERALD. [We are obliged to our correspondent for his exertion of industry and judgment in the following selection. Though the element of the muses is indeed the ather of fancy, yet they sometimes deign to light within the atmosphere of reason and of fact. Metaphysical poetry is not unpleasing. The quaintness of Dr. DoNNE'S metrical point excites the frequent smile, and the ethics of POPE have both rhyme and reason. The classic eye cannot be always in "fine frenzy rolling" but delights sometimes to relieve itself on these mingled productions. The reader, that would keep the interest unbroken, is refered to our fifteenth number for the introduction to a poem of such "great pith and moment"] pursue; Thou art a God;" and sends me to the Of them I ask the way; the first replies, skies. "Down on this turf" (the next) "thou two-legg'd beast, [rest." "There fix thy lot, thy bliss, and endless Between those wide extremes the length is such, I find I know too little or too much. "Almighty Pow'r, by whose most wise command, Helpless,forlorn, uncertain here I stand; Take this faint glimmering of thyself Thou clear'dst the secret of my high Too hard for worldly sages to explain; Those jarring truths which human art [cile. Thy lust, thy curiosity, thy pride, In what thou want'st, and what thou eyes; [It appears by the following lines, that the talent of poetry is hereditary in the family of Burns.] SONG age of 15 years. Thy sacred page thus bade me recon-Written by a son of the poet Burns, at the still mayst be, Thy God alone can tell, alone decree; For who has power to walk, has power to rove; Who acts by force impell'd, can nought Left thy Creator, & the realms of light; Too faint to mount, yet restless to aspire; Hae ye seen, in a fresh dewy morning, tear? Oh! then ye have seen my sweet lassic, But oh! from the haine of my lassie, I'm many a long mile awa'. Her hair is the wing of the blackbird, I now can do nothing at a'; My thoughts are wi' her that's awa. The sweetest we mortals here know; Ah! soon is thy heav'n, brightly gleaming, O'ercast wi' the dark clouds of woe; Thus the moon, on the oft-changing ocean, Delights the wan sailor's glad eye, When red rush the storins of the ocean, And the wild waves, dark, tumble on high. Published by Belcher & Armstrong. ORIGINAL PAPERS. FOR THE EMERALD. THE WANDERER, -No. XLIII. TRAVEL. ing denominated deists or infidels, because the singularity of the epithet attracts the attention of the vulgar. But to those minds, that are prepar. ed by candor for the reception of the seed of faith, the reluctant confession, that has been extorted by the force of fact from the lips of infidelity herself, will give full satisfaction, as to this wonderous fulfillTHE professions are thought to ment. The variety of duties incumcomplete education. How far tra- bent on a clergyman excludes the vel may be essential to success in expediency of travel, and the sacredprofessional life, may be well to con- ness of his employ renders improsider. The subject naturally re- per its influence, since it directs his olves itself into the heads of divini- undivided attention to objects at an ty, physic and law. To divines, it infinite distance above this speck of will readily be granted, travel is not earth. Eloquence is doubtless imvery useful. The attributes of God portant to clergymen, as it may be and the nature of man, the evidences made a very powerful engine in of christianity and proofs of revela- bringing many to the knowledge of tion, the construction of scripture truth. But does this receive im. and the developement of the only provement from travel? Were we to religion it consistently supports, judge from instances around us, we may as well be contemplated in one should conclude in the negative. I clime, as another, under the tropics, say from instances around us; for as upon the equator. True it is in- from among us have gone forth to deed, that visiting the regions of climes beyond the Atlantic, candiEgypt and those countries, where dates for the desk with as much zeal, that prophecy is literally fulfilled, as if science were confined to the which said, "therein shall not one walls of Oxford, and theology to stone be found upon another," might Doctors' commons. Others have strike an awe upon some minds, sought the university of Edinburgh, that would so strengthen their faith, as if that were the holiest of holies, as to put them forever beyond the the sanctuary of the mercy-scat, the reach of infidelity. On this account only place in the world, where God it might be useful to free thinkers; gave audience to his creatures. men, who without thinking at all, On the profession of physic, The are most strenuous advocates for Wanderer speaks with great caulicentiousness of thought; to men, tion, having deference to professionho are pleased with the idea of be-al authority. To the theory of med Τ icine, travel is perhaps highly im- before the academical career is conportant. By this mean the force of cluded; and in this state seven constitution can best be tried, and the years more, before he is admitted effects of natural causes most strik- to practise in all our courts. The ingly felt. Besides the different better half of his life is then probadegrees of medical improvement in bly gone; and if the interruption of different countries, the traditions of travel be introduced, the delay will some people, our Indians for in- be such, that he will be forbidden stance, respecting the power of the opportunity of practice, till he plants, the disorders that rage with is unable to use it. This de monpeculiar violence in some countries strates the inexpediency of travel and their modes of treatment, all for American lawyers. Yet some which are best learnt on the spot, cross the Atlantic and pursue their make travel necessary to perfecting studies under foreign skies. But physicians in the theory of medi- no great advantage can be derived cine. But I humbly conceive it from this, since the sources of inless essential to practice. It is formation are common to all, and enough for a man, who has taken we can boast living streams far more residence for life in a particular inexhaustible than any that can be country, to have studied the con- found on the other side of the ocean. stitution of the inhabitants there; It is a remark of some classical what effects the rigor of their climate writer, that Homer thought the edhas upon them, and be informed ucation of Ulysses imperfect, ull from books, what effects it would he had given him the advantage of probably have upon strangers.-—— travel. Homer was a correct bistoTravel is sometimes pernicious.rian, and hence we may safely conThose who visit other continents, clude, it was then thought imporbefore they have finished their studies, generally return with enervated judgments and with knowledge, that might be useful abroad, but is entirely useless at home. When mixing a potion they are more apt to think of the comparative strength of a northern European and an effeminate Londoner, than of what can be borne by a man of maturity and a delicate infant. tant. But the necessary sacrifice of time, the change of company with place, and the information, that can now be procured from books, has made it by moderns much less desi.able. Professional men, and men of literary taste would derive more improvement from one hour's study in a place, whence all external objects were shut out of sight, and the possibility of distracting attention excluded, than from weeks spent in the gay circus of the world in any quarter of the globe. To say that a man, whatever be his profession, may The great difficulty in pursuing the accomplishmat tray. is want of time. This didicnity is feit most ofs in the profession of law. The banches of t. is study are so numerons and every branch so complex, learn something from every indim.n of ordinary longe-vidual of every class, is indeed vity to devote his whole time to the sound morality; but when held out would find at the end of as a lure to dissipation and as an 1is file someting still af to learn. invitation to assceite indiscrimi2. years of teil of man are nately with ali csses of men, it is t..es are in t."." Of these dangerous in the extreme. It serves Cully clapse, before as a lukiby to application, and will THE EMERALD. end in the stupefaction of intellect. [ of the house. Many thus lost the Whatever be a man's profession or pleasure, they would otherwise have rocation in life, to that should the received from the Roman compli whole power of his mind be bent; and ment with Attic zest. The whole it has been remarked by a writer on of what sentences we could hear, the study of law, that when we deduct was certainly an evidence of pure the portion of existence occasioned Latinity and classic improvement. by sleep, the hours of indisposition, The Forensic on the question the moments of involuntary indo-«Whether any action, proceeding lence, the calls of friends, and the wholly from natural [not rational, time taken up in attending to the as printed in some papers, and ordinary occurrences of life, were which is really no question at all]. we to devote all the rest of our lives inclination, be morally good," kept to the sphere of action we have cho- too close to the point to be popular We are sen, we should never be capable of or generally interesting. attaining to the fiftieth part of that aware that this is the highest com ́excellence, of which the human pliment that can possibly be paid it. mind can form an idea. If we be- In the disputant, who spoke first, lieve this, and it has claims to be- (we know not his name) we noticed lief, we shall all be ready at once to one instance of ill-judged metaphor. conclude, that travel would rather He spoke about being affrighted by Conobstruct, than advance us in the the thunder of CONSCIENCE. road to eminence. science, we have ever thought, the God of "the still, small voice." Its whispers may have more effect than thunder, and remorse can strike dead as well as lightning. But the thunder of conscience is a meta For the Emerald. 0. phor, that seems to infringe common sense. It seems peculiarly within the province of a literary paper, to notice the anniversaries of literary inThe Poem on "Beauty" by stitutions. The Commencement William A. Fales was rataera pleas at Cambridge was yesterday attend-1 production. Its lines were exed as usual by a crowded, respecta-tremely unequal, and metrical ca be, and brilliant audience. alma mater then sent abroad upon the world forty one of her sons with proofs of their literary birthright. dence, as far as we could judge from the car, was not very strictly regarded. Still however, it contained some bold thoughts and fortunate figures. There was yet one line singularly unhappy, as it probably expressed the very reverse of what the poet intended. of time." The performances were A Salutatory Oration in Latin by Isaac Hurd. This was as usual assigned to a very easy and graceful speaker. His address made him perfectly competent to be a pioneer of litera-"And sportive pleasure clips the wings ry ceremonies, and to break the way through confusion and bustle to order and attention. The salutations of the day were given with becoming respect and amenity, but pot in sufficiently loud tone of voice, to have been heard in remote parts! The idea undoubtedly was, that pleasure made time fly quicker, lengthened his pinions to give more force to his wings. But to clip them is the employment of pain. This phrase, "sportive pleasure,' |